🐠 TOTM ENTER NOW: May 2025 Tank of the Month Contest (31 US gallons and larger)

[connorlindeman]

Please enter now!​

Ladies and Gents, Boys and Girls, all our fish lovers around the world - it's time for our monthly Tank of the Month Contest!
This month we are allowing only freshwater aquariums sized at 31 US gallons (117 litres) and larger to be entered in the TOTM contest.

If you have a tank of the above stated size, please consider entering this month's contest. It doesn't matter whether your tank is planted or not planted and it doesn't matter if your tank is not yet near your final goal. More entrants make the contest more interesting, so enter your tank today!

RULES:
A picture uploaded via our "attach files" tool with a handwritten note held in front or attached to your tank with "May 2025 TFF TOTM" written on it is required to validate your entry. If you wish, you may post either a second recent picture OR a video (not both) without the note attached. (If you post a 2nd pic or video, that pic or video will be displayed as your entry post in the poll). Right under the pictures or the video, post a nice detailed write-up of your tank.
**The write up should include a good description of your tank including size, age of setup, fish stocking, water parameters, ferts used, lighting, filtration type, aeration, tank maintenance procedures, feeding schedules, etc.

• The tank you enter must be in your household
• If you won a TOTM contest previously, you must skip at least 2 TOTM contests before you can enter a different tank.
• Video can be uploaded to youtube and then a link to the video may be posted in this thread.
• A detailed description is required!
• Entries will be accepted till 4 PM ET (US) on May 9th or when we have 10 entrants...whichever comes first. Any entrant who posts an entry after we have 10 entrants will be asked to enter the next TOTM contest and their post will be deleted. The winner will be decided by votes cast by FishForums.net members.
• Please note: you are not allowed to have friends or family join TFF for the main purpose of voting for your entry

What do I win?

• You will get a cool banner in your profile area noting that you are a winner of Tank of the Month.
• Your winning entry will be showcased in a "TOTM Winner" topic for all to see and to comment.
• Your winning entry will be added to our TOTM Wall of Fame

Please don’t post any opinions about any specific entry. Such posts will be promptly deleted. Thread will be cleaned up occasionally for readability.

 

[Fishkeeper123]

I’ll enter my beloved 48 gallon community for a second time(I hope that’s allowed). There have been big changes but stocking isn’t confirmed and still some changes to be made. Filter is interpret CF3 adapted to make it more effective. Probably biweekly water changes of 50 percent but parameters get monitored so if nitrates over 40 water change. Stocking is a keyhole cichlid, a Bristlenose pleco, 5 sterbai cories, 7 long finned leopard danios, 6 yellow rainbowfish, a Bolivian ram and an electric blue acara. However I think I’ll rehome the final 2 cichlids for more keyholes but undecided.The tank temperature is 24-25 degrees and is very active tank. Plants are a mixture of things but I know I have anubias and Amazon frogbit but my favourite is the largest one centre-right. It’s not perfectly aquascaped but it’s got plenty of hiding spaces which the fish can go to. They get fed a mixture of fish food. Their favourites are vibra bites, bug bites, frozen daphnia and spirulina wafers. I plan on trying more veggies but the fish don’t seem to enjoy them as much as I hoped.

 

[anewbie]

This is my 55-60 gallon a. Blutkehl aquarium.

It used to be a 20 long but i upgraded it to a larger aquarium after a few spawn.

a. sp Blutkehl is an interesting fish; it is relatively peaceful for an apistogramma with regards to intra species aggression as most species will be quite brutal if multiple males are kept. While the wc ones i received showed no colouring the f1 have developed quite a bit of extensive colours with some being intense red and others blue/green. They like the related species (uaupesi, lineta, ...) have a huge sail fin they will display when courting or in conflict.

If you look center right you can see one of the larger f1. On the right upper you can see a few n. epesi and other f1.

Tank mates include n. epesi, common otocinclus and lots of f1.
The tank ec stays between 20 and 30; temp 78 and ph below 5.5.

 

[connorlindeman]

This is my 600:

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You can see some flag cichild (m. festivus) and chocolate cichild (h. temporalis) as well as some headstanders (a. tenetzi) and h. gracis; on the right mid you can see a few of the 30 serpae tetra and a blury L208; in the far middle you can see a l. thayeri (there are 6); what you don't see are the 13 clownloaches; 5 yoyo and 20 zebra. When they want something from me they will arrive next to my desk and start pacing; usually 30 minutes before feeding time.

I actually have 4 chocolates but the other two stay at the far end where they dug a very deep nest - probably should have put in a foot of substrate but it was too heavy to carry into the room. Maybe in another life i will setup a 36 inch tall aquarium with 14 inch of substrate just so my chocolates can dig and dig.

The flag cichild are kind of old and i won't replace them so eventually it will just be chocolate and clowns; or maybe clowns and chocoalte.

And yea the chocolates do breed and even produce millions of frys but remain relatively docile as long as you stay away from their nest which occupies approx 12 to 18 inches at the far end. Try that in a 10.

Please attach a verification photo.

 

[connorlindeman]

You are allowed to reenter as many times as you like any aquarium that has never won before.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

OK, here we go! This is my 55 gallon, Himalayan/Yunnan Foothills Paludarium. Grab yourself a really good cup of tea and enjoy the video.


I first set up this tank in October 23, after a failed attempt to do a similar setup in a 30g. This is a semi-biotope tank, in which I attempt to capture the feeling of a hillstream in my two favorite tea-growing regions: The Darjeeling-Nepal foothills, and the Yunnan mountains of China. Though several hundred miles apart, these two regions have extremely similar natural environments and share many of the same aquatic plants and fish species.

Since most of the native fish from these regions are either impossible to find in the hobby or far too large and active for a 55g, I borrowed some closely related species from just over the hill in Myanmar.

This is a Walstad style setup; fairly low-tech, no filtration except sponge prefilters to keep gunk out of the pumps. Plants provide the biological filtration. No heater.

Physical setup:
*A fairly ancient 55 gallon tank which I refurbished and resealed. That is a story in itself; suffice it to say it was meant to be.
*Background and land area carved from blue insulation foam, painted with Drylok and concrete pigment.
*a 400 gph pump powering the waterfall and watering the land area, and a 350 gph (soon to be upgraded) pulling water through a river tank manifold to provide current and aeration.
*Play sand substrate; driftwood and rocks from the overflow channel of the friendly local mountain creek.
*Fluvial Aquasky 36" LED fixture, supplemented by a 19" Seoura LED stick to light up the back cave.
*A cheapo fog maker hidden in the waterfall, to keep the emergent plants damp and provide a sense of mystery...

Stocking:
1 Firebelly toad (Bombina orientalis), named Boso, which is Nepali for "chubby". I think I finally figured out how to keep these guys happy and non-vanishing, so more might be on the way soon. I like them a lot.
15 Choprae danios AKA glowlight danios (Celestichthys choprae)
4 Padamya barbs AKA Odessa barbs (Penthia padamya). More currently in quarantine.
5 Reticulated hillstream loach (Sewellia lineolata)
10 Himalayan sand loach (Nemacheilus corica)
1 Scarlet Badis (Dario dario)
5 (?) Amano shrimp (Caridina multidentata)
Ramshorn and pond snails
Terrestrial springtails and isopods

Aquatic plants:
Various cryptocoryns. I have at least five different kinds, providing a variety of color, size and texture.
Anubias coffeefolia, emergent, attempting to simulate tea plants
Anubias barteri, currently blossoming!

Land Plants:
Himalayan maidenhair fern (Adiantum venustum)
Dwarf bamboo (Poaceae sp.)
Liverwort (Conocephalum salebrosum)
Various mosses from Asia and North America

And there you go!

 

[Coryking]

This is my fluvial Roma 125

It's been set up for about 4 months. I originally set it up as a mixed community however it has been slowly turning into a southeast Asian themed tank. I am suffering from a slight black beard algae problem.


Stocking - fish
1x Flash pleco (Panaqolus albivermis)
1x twig catfish (Farlowella acus)
6x endlers (Poecilia wingei)
1x angel fish (Pterophyllum scalare)
7x Albino bronze Corydoras (Corydoras aeneus)
3x glass catfish (Kryptopterus vitreolus)
3x honey gourami (Trichogaster chuna)
5x cherry barbs (Puntius titteya)
6x harlequin rasbora (Trigonostigma heteromorpha)
1x banjo catfish (Bunocephalus coracoideu)

Stocking - plants
Rotala rotundifolia
Ludwig red Rubin
Ludwig super red mini
Ricca fluitans
limnophila sessiliflora
Limnophila hippuridoides
myriophyllum mattogrossense
bolbitis heudelotii
Nymphaea lotus
cryptocoryne balansae
juncus repens
dwarf sagittaria
echinodorus amazonicus
Assortment of moss
A few alcoasisa varieties

Other Information
I'm running two sansi 10w grow bulbs for lighting. I am not fertilising nor am I using co2. I'm feeding twice a day. I also do weekly water changes.

 

[connorlindeman]

We have room for 6 more entries. Which of our fine members will be the next?

 

[connorlindeman]

Just a few more days until voting begins. I hope to see a few more entries!

 

[Yvonne96]

This is my 260 liter tank that was urgently delivered on Saturday as my old tank was leaking so it is a fresh set up.
Stocked is 2 plecos, 1 bristlenose, 4 tinfoil barb and an ever growing number of electric yellow cichlids (including 2 fry’s at the moment)
They are fed every second day with occasional blood worms.

 

[Cisco_Ray]

-Fluval Osaka 155 Litre W61xD46xH61cm (24x18x24")
-The Tank is 8 months old
-Temp 24-26 PH 7
-Ferts TNC Complete every 2 weeks
-Cheap 24" LED Light on schedule
-2 air stones on pump
-Juwel Bioflow internal filter with Sponges and bio media
-Various Plants
-Hard scape wood stone
-20% water change every 2 weeks
-5 x Corys
-5 x Lampeyes
-5 x Neon Tetras
-Started with 10 x Red Cherry shrimp
-5 x Armano Shrimp
Feed once a day with various foods including pellets, Flakes, and frozen food.

 

[connorlindeman]

My 155 litre tank which I setup 8 months ago after a 10 year break from the hobby.

-155 Litres

-Various plants

-hardscape Rock stone

-Fish, Harlequin Rasboras, Neon tetras, Lampeyes, Corys, Cherry shrimps and Armano shrimps.

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Please read the rules and attach the required verification picture.

 

[connorlindeman]

Less then 24 hours until voting begins. Whos gonna be the next to enter?

 

[anewbie]

Less then 24 hours until voting begins. Whos gonna be the next to enter?

I have 11 more aquariums larger than 31 gallons ....

 

[connorlindeman]

I have 11 more aquariums larger than 31 gallons ....

You are only allowed to enter one.